Been away for a while. Figured I would give an update to those that might want to hear. So let's see, I've...
- Started exercising. I have a real exercising program and everything. The focus of my excercise is durability. I've just started, and haven't worked out in years, so it will be in baby steps to begin with. The idea is to get in overall good shape but I'm not trying to get toned or deffed. That might happen down the road or it might not, but this mostly has to do with my health.
- Started playing around with healthier foods. Chicken or swine instead of beef, preferably chicken, some times meatless meals (although I am not aiming to become a vegetarian in any way), and have started caring more about nutrition. For the past 2 years I've eaten 1-2 meals a day. Normally I would go to work, come back, chill for a few hours, eat, wait another few hours, then go to bed. Now I can actually say I have a frequent diet.
- Lost a bunch of kilos. I'm not sure how much as I've YoYoed a bit, but I'm now at a stable 200 pounds minus. Worst ever was 260. I lost the most part of that weight long ago, the emphasis is on being stable, and having hit an all-new low.
- Gotten a job back in August, probably the first job where I won't get fired. I've had like 3 jobs before and got "fired" from 2. In both instances, the system was against me and I will to the day of my death uphold that I didn't actually under perform or do anything wrong, and that it was faulty/bad leadership. Either way, my new job inspires me to wake up and go to work, mostly because of the wonderful people I work with there, and the awesome way everything is set up with internal competitions and shit. It's customer service so nothing fancy, but I don't have a general certificate due to skipping some classes way back in elementary, and never re-taking them, so in my life it would make sense to work my way up rather than start educating myself at the age of 24. Additional schooling within organization, leadership and finance is something I might pursue, but for now I like having an income. I work as a phone customer support person in a team of five people where I'm the coordinator, meaning if we perform bad one week on the results it's up to me to encourage everyone to do better. It's a glorified role but comes with some amount of responsibility in the fields of managing people, which I believe to be among my strengths. We just won an internal sales competition and my team is going on a trip soon. I'm easy to please and have little ambition out there in the world, so this job is perfect for me. I'm really happy with it.
- Kicked the habit. I am drug free. I may or may not stay that way long. Right now, my reasons for quitting were that I felt like the smoking was holding my back, making my mind unclear. When always having THC in my blood my reactions are always reduced, and it's been like this for a year straight now. Don't think I had any breaks, not even for one day. So I've just recently quit, but feel like I'll be able to follow through on it, feeling good about it. I'll compare it to the first 20 minutes after you wake up from sleep. You're still sleepy as hell, your body needs time to start all the processes. So you can feel yourself slowly waking up. That's what it feels like having quit. Each day, I feel sharper, faster, brighter. The intention is to save the smoking for occasions.
- Gotten some friends that I like kicking it with. All my old friends moved, and I followed them a year after, there were threads about this as well, I went to school but the year failed. I had that girl with the issues and I was in a very dark place. But now I have established a network of people I deal with on a day-to-day basis, meaning I'm back to being social.
- I play some World of Warcraft at high levels. It's not the kind of WoW playing that any of you have ever done as we're talking maybe a few hours a week, and when I do play, it's competitive play. Maximum focus, I make sure I've eaten and slept enough, it's a hobby to me. I'm not a sports person, but this serves the same purpose for me. I also actively play Heroes of Newerth which is basically DotA with a new graphics engine. It's awesome. In between gaming sessions and social conduct there's not much room for posting as I've had to spend extra time and effort to re-establish my life. Things are starting to balance out more now, and I find I have more time for the computer in between things. I'll try and come back more onto Streethop!
- Started exercising. I have a real exercising program and everything. The focus of my excercise is durability. I've just started, and haven't worked out in years, so it will be in baby steps to begin with. The idea is to get in overall good shape but I'm not trying to get toned or deffed. That might happen down the road or it might not, but this mostly has to do with my health.
- Started playing around with healthier foods. Chicken or swine instead of beef, preferably chicken, some times meatless meals (although I am not aiming to become a vegetarian in any way), and have started caring more about nutrition. For the past 2 years I've eaten 1-2 meals a day. Normally I would go to work, come back, chill for a few hours, eat, wait another few hours, then go to bed. Now I can actually say I have a frequent diet.
- Lost a bunch of kilos. I'm not sure how much as I've YoYoed a bit, but I'm now at a stable 200 pounds minus. Worst ever was 260. I lost the most part of that weight long ago, the emphasis is on being stable, and having hit an all-new low.
- Gotten a job back in August, probably the first job where I won't get fired. I've had like 3 jobs before and got "fired" from 2. In both instances, the system was against me and I will to the day of my death uphold that I didn't actually under perform or do anything wrong, and that it was faulty/bad leadership. Either way, my new job inspires me to wake up and go to work, mostly because of the wonderful people I work with there, and the awesome way everything is set up with internal competitions and shit. It's customer service so nothing fancy, but I don't have a general certificate due to skipping some classes way back in elementary, and never re-taking them, so in my life it would make sense to work my way up rather than start educating myself at the age of 24. Additional schooling within organization, leadership and finance is something I might pursue, but for now I like having an income. I work as a phone customer support person in a team of five people where I'm the coordinator, meaning if we perform bad one week on the results it's up to me to encourage everyone to do better. It's a glorified role but comes with some amount of responsibility in the fields of managing people, which I believe to be among my strengths. We just won an internal sales competition and my team is going on a trip soon. I'm easy to please and have little ambition out there in the world, so this job is perfect for me. I'm really happy with it.
- Kicked the habit. I am drug free. I may or may not stay that way long. Right now, my reasons for quitting were that I felt like the smoking was holding my back, making my mind unclear. When always having THC in my blood my reactions are always reduced, and it's been like this for a year straight now. Don't think I had any breaks, not even for one day. So I've just recently quit, but feel like I'll be able to follow through on it, feeling good about it. I'll compare it to the first 20 minutes after you wake up from sleep. You're still sleepy as hell, your body needs time to start all the processes. So you can feel yourself slowly waking up. That's what it feels like having quit. Each day, I feel sharper, faster, brighter. The intention is to save the smoking for occasions.
- Gotten some friends that I like kicking it with. All my old friends moved, and I followed them a year after, there were threads about this as well, I went to school but the year failed. I had that girl with the issues and I was in a very dark place. But now I have established a network of people I deal with on a day-to-day basis, meaning I'm back to being social.
- I play some World of Warcraft at high levels. It's not the kind of WoW playing that any of you have ever done as we're talking maybe a few hours a week, and when I do play, it's competitive play. Maximum focus, I make sure I've eaten and slept enough, it's a hobby to me. I'm not a sports person, but this serves the same purpose for me. I also actively play Heroes of Newerth which is basically DotA with a new graphics engine. It's awesome. In between gaming sessions and social conduct there's not much room for posting as I've had to spend extra time and effort to re-establish my life. Things are starting to balance out more now, and I find I have more time for the computer in between things. I'll try and come back more onto Streethop!
I am a fan of fried fish fillet as well and will probably try to incorporate that into my menu. Atlantic pollock and cod is delish if served properly, and let's be realistic about where I'm from - I obviously have fish hook-ups.